Canadian by-elections, 2014

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I never understood why Jews have concentrated as a "belt" along Bathurst St.

I suppose the same reason the Chinese, Italians, Greek, Indian, etc in Toronto tend to congregate "Belt like" along a main street or streets. The Chinese along Spadina (ok, and Dundas and Broadview) Italians along College, Greeks along Danforth, Indians along Gerrard.

A more specific reason is that a lot of observant Jews do not use transportation on the Sabbath and walk to synagogue.  Since most of the synagogues are along Bathurst St, it makes sense that many Jews live within walking distance.

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Niagara Falls





Thornhill

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The Ontario writs have been dropped. In Niagara the Tories are running their ex-MPP, ditto for Grits in Thornhill.

Actually, the Liberal candidate in Thornhill, Sandra Yeung Racco, is the wife of the former Liberal MPP Mario Racco.

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Quick and dirty map, based on 224 of the 263 'ordinary' polls, from last night's by-election.

(No results available for 'gray' polls.)

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Here are a comparison of the results by municipality for the Niagara Falls by-election:

Niagara-on-the-Lake
2014(By):  NDP 22%, PC 50%, Lib 24%, Oth 4%
2011(Gen):  NDP 12%, PC 44%, Lib 42%, Oth 2%
1990 (Gen):  NDP 21%, PC 29%, Lib 43%, Oth 7%

Niagara Falls
2014(By):  NDP 43%, PC 33%, Lib 22%, Oth 2%
2011(Gen):  NDP 25%, PC 31%, Lib 42%, Oth 2%
1990 (Gen):  NDP 47%, PC 13%, Lib 26%, Oth 14%

Fort Erie
2014(By):  NDP 44%, PC 42%, Lib 11%, Oth 3%
2011(Gen):  NDP 39%, PC 41%, Lib 19%, Oth 1%
1990 (Gen):  NDP 44%, PC 22%, Lib 26%, Oth 8%

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The official results have come out for the Thornhill and Niagara Falls by-elections.

Thornhill



Niagara Falls